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Kakhovka Dam destruction: first official deaths and reports on missing civilians
Ukraine Frontlines
June 12, 2023 12:20 pm
https://ukrainefrontlines.com/news/ukraine/kakhovka-dam-destruction-first-official-deaths-and-reports-on-missing-civilians/
NOTE: *indicates my emphasis
The latest official updates on Kakhovka Dam destruction says that at least 10 people died as a result of the explosion made by the russian occupiers at the Kakhovka Hydro Power Plant.
In the Kherson region, 46 settlements remain flooded. 8 people died. 42 persons are considered missing, including 7 children. In the Mykolaiv region, 31 settlements were flooded. 2 people died.
3,704 people have already been evacuated from Kherson region and Mykolaiv region. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
2,722 people were rescued from the territory of Kherson region, including 205 children, 76 citizens with limited mobility. It is also known about 5 dead.
982 people were evacuated from the Mykolaiv region, including 167 children. Two people died.
Meantime, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin reports that 112 people have already been evacuated from the occupied coast of the Kherson Region.
The russian occupiers PREVENT EVACUATION BY SHOOTING PEOPLE IN THE BACK.* The water level in the flooded settlements of the Kherson region is currently 3.29 m on average.
As before, 46 villages and towns of the region remain flooded. 32 of them are on the Right Bank, 14 on the Left Bank.
Water in flooded settlements is gradually receding. However, the weather conditions have worsened: it is raining almost all over the Kherson region, but this will not stop the rescue work, reported the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.
The following data is also known:
-In the Kherson region, as of 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 11, 5 people were killed, 35 are considered missing, including 7 children, in the area of flooding caused by Russians undermining the Kakhovskaya HPP. In Kherson Oblast, 46 settlements were actually flooded, of which 32 (3,821 houses) were in the territory controlled by Ukraine, and 14 were in the territory temporarily captured by the Russians. 2,718 people were evacuated, including 190 children.
-In the Mykolaiv region, 31 settlements were flooded. 982 people were evacuated, including 167 children. 1 person died.
-In the Dnipropetrovsk region, there is no water supply for almost 162 thousand subscribers in 34 settlements. Drinking and technical water is being delivered.